What (Search Engines Think) People Want

Having used the R language for awhile now, I would like to let you know that R works – in fact R works really well. If you keep up with R news this should be no surprise…this is, after all…an r blog! R and R alone can accomplish the programming tasks facing you. R is a common letter and searches for a single letter can be challenging. If you are here because of an interest in an r rating (e.g. r movies or r games) then you have come to the wrong place. We love music, but have nothing to say about R and B. Nope, no R & B lyrics here.

However, if you want to see examples of the R XML package, you have come to the right place! You will find more than one r plot that might strike your fancy! Yup, and an r title or an r legend or two… All of the code on the site is intended to be run. Copy it straight into the RGui or into an R file (R source files have a .R extension by convention).

If you are looking for an R download of the R software just choose an available mirror and download for your platform (for instance, if you are interested in R for windows ports are available).

If you are just starting out, you might want to visit the R Forum or R Help. The R manual (or rather manuals) are available online. I am not sure what the best r editor might be. I use any old text editor available at the moment… some editor that includes syntax highlighting.

Some R objects, functions and commands seem to cause difficulty for programmers. These include the R if (and R if else and r else if variations), R list object, and R t (used to transpose an r matrix) for example.

That’s all of the r words or r names for the moment… Its just R us and R them. So I am off to climb into my R tree or under an R table and call it a day.

I have to admit, I have been writing with an eye to human readership and have not thought much about how to increase site traffic. Noticed a post that featured a perl script and read up a bit on Search Engine Optimization and realized that, well, a lot of what is produced for the web is targetted far more towards the search engines (or in this case, search engine suggestions) than human beings. Kind of explains some of the contrived style that appears in certain articles. And…oh… appears above :).

In fairness, I think that this information might be more valuable for other tasks – like selecting domains to purchase. Thought it was kind of facinating anyway – and will let you know if this post ends up with more search engine traffic than others. Anyway, the related R code is available on github.